| COLLECTIONS OF TOPICS | (see also Interesting Ideas & Websites ) |
| BBC Science & Nature |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/ |
| Channel 4.com Science | http://www.channel4.com/science/index.html |
| Daily Planet Video Archive
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http://www.exn.ca/dailyplanet/archivelist.asp |
| Scientific American Magazine
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/ |
| The Scale of the Universe 2 <New 2012>
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http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white |
| SPECIFIC TOPICS | |
| Adventure | |
| Vancouver to Moscow by Human Power | http://vancouvertomoscow.com/ |
| Animal and Human Behaviour Compared | |
| Our Inner Ape (Frans de Waal) | http://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/OurInnerApe/ |
| Earth Exploration | |
| Earth - Timelapse View From Space <New>
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http://vimeo.com/32001208 |
| Perpetual Ocean - Ocean Currents animated video by NASA | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xusdWPuWAoU |
| South Pole Station Virtual Tour | http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/vtour/pole/ |
| Electrostatic Lifters | |
| Lifters (Museum of Electricity) | http://www.electricmuseum.com/exhibits/lifter/index.shtml |
| Energy | |
| Water as Fuel! (video clip) | http://www.mulone.com/WaterFuel.wmv |
| World Changing: Airborne Wind Power | http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004052.html |
| World Changing: Another World is Here | http://www.worldchanging.com/ |
| Environmental Topics | |
| Perpetual Ocean - Ocean Currents animated video by NASA | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xusdWPuWAoU |
| Space for Species: Tracking From Space | http://www.spaceforspecies.ca/ |
| Genetics | |
| Human Epigenome Project | http://www.epigenome.org/index.php?page=project |
| Human Genome Project (National Human Genome Institute) | http://www.genome.gov/ |
| Holograms - Holography | |
| 3D Hologram - Hatsune Miku - Japanese Animé Pop Star <New> | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTXO7KGHtjI&feature=player_embedded |
| Human Beings: Research Subjects | |
| Human Performance Lab (U. of Calgary) | http://www.kin.ucalgary.ca/hpl/ |
| Invisibility | |
| Cloak of Invisibility (Oct. 19, 2006) | http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061019/ap_on_sc/cloak_of_invisibility |
| Optical Camouflage | http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/oc.html |
| Lasers (see also Holograms above) | |
| Encyclopedia of Laser Physics & Technology | http://www.rp-photonics.com/encyclopedia.html |
| Mathematics | |
| "From Crypto to Jazz": Math Interpreted as Music | http://www.wired.com/news/culture/reviews/0,71658-0.html?tw=wn_index_2 |
| Nanotechnology | |
| Diamond nanorods (Nanotechweb.org) | http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/4/8/16 |
| Diamond nanorods (Physorg.com) | http://www.physorg.com/news6436.html |
| Diamond nanorods (Wikipedia) | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregated_diamond_nanorods |
| Institute of Nanotechnology | http://www.nano.org.uk/ |
| Patent Search | |
| Patent Analytics & Patent Searching | http://www.freepatentsonline.com/ |
| Physics | |
| Motion Mountain: The Free Physics Textbook ! | http://www.motionmountain.net/ |
| Robotics | |
| DARPA Grand Challenge | http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/index.asp |
| FESTO Robotics modelled after animals! |
http://www.festo.com/cms/en-ca_ca/13046.htm |
| Front Line Robotics | http://www.frontlinerobotics.com/2005/ |
| Human Centred Robotics Group at Essex | http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/hhu/HCR-Group.html |
| "Rabbit" Biped robot | http://robot-rabbit.lag.ensieg.inpg.fr/English/ |
| Robotics Articles: Current Research (GizMag) | http://www.gizmag.com/robotics/ |
| Robots: Asimo (Honda) | http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/ |
| Robots: HRP2 (Kawada) | http://www.kawada.co.jp/global/ams/hrp_2.html |
| "Stanley" (Stanford Racing Team) | http://cs.stanford.edu/group/roadrunner//old/index.html |
| The Shape of Robots to Come (NY Times) | http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/16/technology/circuits/16robot.html |
| Space | |
| Astronomy Picture of the Day * | http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html |
| Earth - Timelapse View From Space <New>
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http://vimeo.com/32001208 |
| Google Mars | http://www.google.com/mars/ |
| Google Moon * | http://moon.google.com/ |
| International Space Station Mission Pages | http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html |
| New Planets in our Solar System: IAU draft Aug. 2006 | http://www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.org/iau0601/iau0601_release.html |
| PlanetQuest | http://www.planetquest.org/ |
| Rocket Racing League | http://www.rocketracingleague.com/index.html |
| SpaceRip <New 2012> | http://spacerip.com/ |
| Space Weather (check for sunspots here) | http://www.spaceweather.com/ |
| The Scale of the Universe 2 <New 2012>
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http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white |
| Technology: Advances, Research, etc. | |
| BOINC (UC Berkeley): Donate your unused computing power to your choice of research projects * |
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ |
| Optical Camouflage | http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/oc.html |
| SETI@Home (project ended Dec. 15, 2005) | http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ |
| TED: Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference | http://ted.com/ |
| TED Talks (video clips from 2006 conference) | http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/ |
| Text to Speech Synthesis: AT&T | http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html |
| Universal Display Corporation (flexible flat-panel color displays) | http://www.universaldisplay.com/ |
| Unusual...(food for thought!) | |
| Earth 100 Million Years from Now <New 2012> | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGcDed4xVD4&feature=related |
| Motion Mountain: The Free Physics Textbook ! | http://www.motionmountain.net/ |
| Our Inner Ape (Frans de Waal) | http://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/OurInnerApe/ |
| Perpetual Ocean - Ocean Currents animated video by NASA | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xusdWPuWAoU |
| The Scale of the Universe 2 <New 2012>
|
http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white |
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